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Getting round the annoyance of Slideshare and related things

So, you've done your presentation, but the sharing site you've used has arbitrarily decided to remove backgrounds / delete animations / obscure your text by rearranging your slides?

There is a solution.

It is a little time consuming, but a solution nonetheless.

If you follow these steps if you encounter rpoblems with Slideshare etc, this will save you a lot aof heartache and stress.

1.Open up your PowerPoint
2. Click 'file'
3. Click on 'save and send'

4. Then click on 'create a video', as illustrated by this handy image...

5. This screen will appear:

6. Change the length of the animation duration as also shown in this image, carefully rendered and photoshopped to within an inch its life as it is. 

7. Then click on the 'create a video' button and follow the usual instructions for saving things.

8. You can then use the 'insert video' button on your blog (see picture) to upload a version of your PowerPoint which will hopefully not have received an random editing from other websites.

9. It can take a little while to upload, but it'll work.

How to...make my blog even better...

The exam board will be looking for blogs to be dynamic and using a range of media technologies. Click in to the new post option and have a look at the options, play around with them.

You can add links with the 'link' function, images with the'insert image' function, and video with 'insert a video'.

If you want to embed word documents I'd suggest setting yourself up a Scribd account and uploading your work there and then embedding it from there into your blog using the embed code. You can do the same with presentations by sett5ing yourself up a slideshare account and doing the same thing.

And, really, check out http://prezi.com/. It is free and you can make really interesting presentations and embed them in to your blogs quite easily.

Media in the online age on Prezi

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